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| Oliveira Júnior,Carlos Alberto; Riet-Correa,Gabriela; Tavares,Carla; Souza,Elda; Cerqueira,Valíria Duarte; Pfister,James; Cook,Daniel; Riet-Correa,Franklin. |
| Ipomoea carnea is a toxic plant often ingested by livestock in Brazil. Three experiments were conducted to determine if conditioned food aversion was effective in reducing goats' consumption of I. carnea. In the first experiment, 10 mildly intoxicated goats that had been eating I. carnea were averted using LiCl (175 to 200mg kg-1 body weight). These intoxicated goats did not develop an aversion to I. carnea, demonstrating that the technique is not effective in goats that are already accustomed to consuming the plant. In the second experiment, 14 naïve goats were placed in a pasture with I. carnea, and averted after they ingested the plant. In this group the aversion persisted until the end of the experiment, 2 years and 8 months after the initial aversion.... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Poisonous plants; Swainsonine; Conditioned food aversion; Lithium chloride. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782014000701240 |
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